Hunter Mistakenly Shoots Grizzly, Killed by Wounded Bear

Two hunters going after black bears along the Idaho-Montana border mistakenly shot a grizzly and one of the men paid with his life. Steve Stevenson, 39, of Nevada yelled to draw the wounded, 400-pound grizzly away from his hunting partner when it charged them and was mauled to death.

From this story on Missoulan.com: “They both shot it and it kept coming,” Steve Stevenson’s mom, Janet Price, said on Saturday. “Steve yelled at it to try and distract it, and it swung around and took him down. It’s what my son would have done automatically, for anybody.”

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office in Montana said Stevenson, of Winnemucca, Nev., died Friday after 20-year-old Ty Bell wounded what he thought was a black bear and the two men tracked it into thick cover along the Idaho-Montana border where it attacked at about 10 a.m. Friday.